With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

When we make the decisions to be and stay in love, we should also make a decision and commitment to be supportive.

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

What good is strength if you have no sense?

I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.